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Khaleel Datay

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in Cape Town, South Africa

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Thriller, Suspense

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Khaleel Datay lives with his family in Cape Town, South Africa. He divides his time between running a business consultancy, writing and painting.
Khaleel has completed his debut novel, The Winter Deception, an espionage thriller set in Mumbai, India against a backdrop of economic turmoil in Europe. The book depicts the search for the truth by a former soldier and consultant to MI6 in Iraq hired to find an Indian terrorist. Along the way he discovers a web of betrayal and deception reaching into the country’s highest levels of a government already blackened with fraud and corruption. Pursued by killers bent on revenge from Mumbai to the bad lands of northern Pakistan, he uncovers the darkest secrets of his past and the pain of a love destroy ...more

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	The Winter Deception 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	To Kill A Spy it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Review: King Solomon's Mines

Set in British-ruled South Africa, Allan Quartermain, a hunter and fortune seeker, is approached by an English gentleman to help him look for his brother, reportedly last seen in deep dark Africa. The Englishman also produces a 300-year old map drawn in the blood of the last man known to have gotten close to Solomon's Mines. Quartermain refuses at first, but is drawn by adventure and the possibili Read more of this blog post »

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A Ritual For the Dying (Detective Inspector Declan Walsh #6)

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